A paper expanding on greater ability to intervene during hacks – especially on private companies – causes alarm among Coalition and Greens
, not just operational disruptions”.
The Greens senator David Shoebridge, who is responsible for the party’s policy on digital rights, said the government had “not made a case to justify the expansion of these extraordinary takeover powers”. The minister for home affairs and cybersecurity, Clare O’Neil, said the existing laws envisaged that in “limited circumstances it will sometimes be necessary for government to come in and assist an Australian company or organisation to help manage a cybersecurity incident”.
“It is clear that a package of regulatory reform is necessary,” wrote the former Telstra boss Andrew Penn, the former air force chief Mel Hupfeld and the cybersecurity expert Rachael Falk.
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